Turbulent natural convection in an air-water system with evaporation across the free surface by Julien CARLIER
28 February 2024
13:00
Louvain-la-Neuve
Place du Levant 2, Seminar room b.044
In this talk, I will present numerical results for turbulent convection in a pool that contains liquid water in the lower part and air in the upper one. The bottom wall is uniformly heated and natural convection is established in both phases, accompanied by water evaporation across the free surface of the water. First I will briefly describe the governing equations, including the jump relations across the free surface. The descent of the free surface due to evaporation is computed via a newly developed tracking algorithm based on the ghost-fluid method.